ORIGINAL: flat6
ORIGINAL: daro911
ORIGINAL: spyderwhite firstly excuse me i have just come from the pub! some of us need to understand porsche cycles! we are mid way 981 cycle so the gts is the mid waypoint and the runout 981.1! the next gen will be the 981.2 which we now know will be 4 pot and will be 2016 model year arriving mid 2015 with which if porsche make an r/spyder will come 2018/9 and will be 4 pot.as for steping on 911 toes and having 395 bhp there is not aproblem as one is flat6 and one is flat4 turbo.so 395 bhp is just around the corner but in f4 turbo form.audi ttrs anyone!!
As this is what they did between 987/997 Gen 1 & Gen 2 I see what you are saying could be the way the forward .... So a 981.2 will come in two flavours presumably standard & S and the hot shots with the 395bhp sometime between them and the all new next models 982 etc[&o]
One thing is for certain for me though, I can't see there being a 45HP jump in one evolution of the car, from 340HP to 395HP. If someone does the maths on how often we get 10-15HP increments, does that tell us when the 395HP 4 pot turbo is likely? Or do you think it'll arrive without it's full 395HP initially (but then he'd have made a gaff announcing its full potential power so early). The 991 Carrera S launched with a little less power than the 997 GTS The 981 S launched with a little less power than the Spyder/R Wouldn't surprise me if the 981.2 launched with the current 981.1 GTS power and the GTS disappears at the start of 981.2. The GTS is likely to only be an addition to the current car and not its gen 2 successor, I reckon [8|]
] Just popping in to mention that my Spyder is now up for sale here http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=819908 [&o] Will catch up on the forum tomorrow [
